Who Was Kafka?
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Who Was Kafka?
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Re: Who Was Kafka?
#2Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago.
As mentioned, just curious how the upvoting works here. Would be great if someone could help explain.
Re: Who Was Kafka?
#3Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago. As mentioned, just curi…
I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.
Re: Who Was Kafka?
#4Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago. As mentioned, just curi…
We put it in the second-chance pool, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there. It's an experiment in giving good stories that fell through the cracks another chance at getting attention on the front page.
Re: Who Was Kafka?
#5Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago. As mentioned, just curi…
I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.
Thanks. Yeah that checks out.
Re: Who Was Kafka?
#6Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago. As mentioned, just curi…
I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.
Karma doesn't affect story ranking.
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#7This is very cool! Kafka is my favorite Existentialist. The second excerpt strikes me as a classic block-breaking exercise.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.
Karma doesn't affect story ranking.
My apologies, I thought post ranking has to do with karma.
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#9This site has one of the most annoying paywalls I've seen.
As you scroll down, the page loads the next article. The paywall script detects this as you trying to read another article and throws a pop-up about how you read 3 of the 6 free articles you have.
Much to my annoyance, it doesn't let me return to the kafka article but redirects me to the article it auto-loaded. Even if I go back, the same thing happens.
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#10Flagged. I click the link, article loads and then a paywall steals it away. I come back to HN and click the "web" link and it takes me to Google, I click the article there and the article loads and then a paywall steals it away. I try again in an incognito window, the same thing happens.
I am sorry dang, but the web link simply doesn't work sometimes. There is no way for a non-subscriber to read this. While I appreciate you believe there are still things worth sharing that are paywalled it should be made clear in the submission with [subscription only] or similar because otherwise you have me doing 4 or so pageloads for nothing. I.e. this isn't acceptable no matter what your personal opinion is of paywalls. I.e. the paywall argument we've had in the past does not apply here. If there is no way around then it needs an extra piece of information to tell us that.
Ironically this whole palaver is similar to Kafka's "Before the Law". I would add that if you've lived for a substantial time in a country that has inherited the patterns of Habsburg bureaucracy, as I have, then some of Kafka's work isn't actually as far removed from reality as you might think.